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Example sentences for "scare"

Lexicographically close words:
scarcely; scarcer; scarcest; scarcitie; scarcity; scarecrow; scarecrows; scared; scares; scarf
  1. And that very scare shows an important fact which you silverites ought to heed--that nearly all the bankers and heavy moneyed men are opposed to free coinage.

  2. Under the present policy of the government we have all the disadvantages of both systems and the advantages of neither, with the added element of chronic uncertainty and an artificial scare gotten up for political purposes.

  3. He swore aloud, but there was no answer, so he got up, after crashing his rifle-butt down on the floor to scare away anything that crawled.

  4. I'll make my pony dance and perhaps that will scare Hans so he won't care to go.

  5. That lion must have come quite near, to scare 'em so," asserted the young rancher.

  6. That howling would scare me a great deal quicker than any ghosts or witches," observed Tom.

  7. It is common to scare away ennui in every way, just as it is common to labour without pleasure.

  8. He'd be mean enough to scare them half to death.

  9. To scare the leaders off might be easy, but would not those in the rear push on until he was simply overwhelmed?

  10. I don't want to scare my sister and the other girls.

  11. Oh, Phil, see if you can't scare the steer off!

  12. We'll scare the wits out of him," returned Tom Shocker.

  13. Maybe you didn't mean to kill me, but you meant to scare me, and you took a big chance, for I might have been hit.

  14. Some of the militia companies undertook to patrol the country to scare the negroes with a show of force,[975] and in some places disguised patrols rode through the negro settlements to keep them in order.

  15. This was done, and though the governor had not approved them, the country members went home with pockets full of bills introduced by themselves, to show to their constituents and to scare the negroes into work.

  16. Don't laugh so loud, you might scare the fishes.

  17. WHAT I SAW ONE DAY Now I do not know how brave an English lord may be or how much it may take to scare him, but I, Lord Dolphin, inhabitant of the great Mediterranean Sea, was scared nearly out of my wits and skin by the sight I saw one day.

  18. But what," she asked, looking curiously at Billie, "did your brother mean by saying not to scare away the ghosts before he gets there?

  19. Do you suppose she's fat enough to scare away the ghosts?

  20. Well, you needn't scare a fellow to death," grumbled Chet.

  21. Chet as the train moved off, "and don't scare them all off before I get there!

  22. If you're going to scare me again," began Laura, but it was Billie this time who commanded silence.

  23. She says her mother did it when she was a babe to scare the devil off her.

  24. All his fiery appeals fell like shooting stars, brilliant but useless; all his vehement excitations did little more than scare the peasants whom he sought to rouse.

  25. You say this to scare me, to make me desist.

  26. So Gavia went off to one side and stirred the water up as if she were trying to scare fish toward the others, who waited quietly.

  27. Both sides claimed a victory, and St. Leger vainly tried to scare the garrison by the story that their comrades had been destroyed in the forest.

  28. All Nara wanted was to scare our bearers back to Santa Isabel and chase us off into the jungle.

  29. He did want to scare our bearers so they would run back to Santa Isabel.

  30. I knew a couple of little shrunken heads wouldn't scare you.

  31. Then they kept guard over the real El Dorado to scare away anybody who stumbled on it by mistake.

  32. I could go to Fred, tell him what I know, and scare him so he'd fall down in his effort to become the crack pitcher of the nine!

  33. They sent Haydon down here, to scare the folks in the basin into sellin' out for a song.

  34. The Supervisor had his pack-horse with him, and as the herd drew nearer he told Wilbur to take him out of sight into the brush, so as not to scare the steers, and tie him up safely.

  35. Don't you walk enough daytimes that you still want to wander around at night and scare people, just like.

  36. You won't scare anybody by a bluff; but it's better to settle the affair on the quiet.

  37. Feathers, for bed; for mark by road-side; on string, to scare game.

  38. Leaving a handkerchief or a short to flutter from a tree, will scare animals of prey for a short time.

  39. A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.

  40. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit.

  41. The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods.

  42. Life in its large extent is scare a span.

  43. I wouldn't be s'prised if she close herded yuh fer a spell till her scare wears off.

  44. Be still, Dorman, or you'll certainly scare all the coyotes to death.

  45. So recently as 1872, there was a scare in Calcutta when the Hooghly Bridge was being constructed.

  46. Christians within hearing to pray for the departing spirit, and it scared away the evil spirits who were watching to seize it, or at least to scare and terrify it.

  47. I could make a laughing-stock out of her, and scare her away easy.

  48. You can get back at me all you want, only don't draw it hard enough to scare him away.

  49. Dropping down to the spring-hole, he thrust the tip to the bottom and slashed it around in a way to scare and scatter every trout within a hundred feet.

  50. It looked more likely to scare than catch, but was a success.

  51. He did not intend to shoot at the man, but only to fire to scare him, and thus hasten the coming of Mr. Jackson and the colored man.

  52. When dey send we to scare de crow 'way, we is go in de field when fuss (first) sun up en we is stay dere aw day.

  53. We chillun ain' been big 'nough to do nuthin but scare de crow offen de corn en some uv de time my ole Missus'ud hab we chillun sweepin' outer in de yard when she be out dere wid us.

  54. My Massa is some uh time send we chillun in de field to scare de crow offen de corn.

  55. When de fust engine come through, puffin' and tootin', lak to scare 'most everybody to death.

  56. I liked de work, but I got many a scare while I was dere.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alarm; awe; consternation; cowardice; daunt; deter; discourage; dismay; disquiet; disturb; dread; fear; fright; frighten; funk; horrify; horror; intimidate; lean; menace; overawe; panic; petrify; phobia; scare; shake; shock; spook; stagger; stampede; startle; terrify; terror; terrorize; turn; unman; unnerve; upset